In April, the FAU Berlin was charged 200 Euros for referring to itself as a union in its statutes. In December 2009, an injunction had been issued forcing them to remove the word union from all their publications. However the banned word remained in the statutes until mid-March as a change there would have taken several months. The management of the Babylon Mitte Cinema filed for the charges in February 2010. The injunction was also filed for by the same cinema's management during a labor dispute with its employees, which the FAU Berlin was supporting. This is the first time that a workers' association has been banned from calling itself a union in Germany. Lars Röhm has been the secretary of the FAU Berlin since 2009.

There is a wave of strikes, actions and demonstrations in Greece, and they are organized during dramatic circumstances not only for Greece but for the whole globe. The reasons of the misery are caused by today`s capitalism which suffers the most serious crisis since the Great Depression.

The capitalist crisis shall be solved by liberating the capitalists from obligations towards the employees, the old, the young, the ill, the unemployed, and the communities. This freedom for the capitalists means slavery for the vast majority. The profit is privatized to secure and expand the wealth of the rich, while the costs, risks and oppression are socialized!

The International Workers Association (IWA) mobilizes and fights against the capitalist exploitation in whatever country of the world as the solidarity has no borders!

We're under constant pressure. Capitalism needs labor, cheap labor that works long hours, in order to maximize profit. We feel it day in and day out. This pressure leads to downsizing; fewer workers are doing more. At the same time "atypical" employment is on the rise: temps, short-term contracts, freelancers, part-timers and workfare.

Precarious work means insecurity, hire and fire, overtime, no vacations, on-call, low-pay, no sick pay, and fear of losing your job. For those lucky enough to have a "normal" job, fear of temporary work and welfare lead them to keep quiet until it's too late. The results are powerlessness and isolation.
We can no longer afford to remain silent. Whether you (still) have a secure job or work precariously, as long as you remain inactive the pressure will increase. We have to organize in our workplace and beyond in order to resist. When workers unite it's called a union.